Biddeford Savings Bank Purchases Masonic Building
The fire damaged Masonic Building on Main Street Biddeford sold after noon by bid to Biddeford Savings Bank for 62500 dollars. The bank plans land control and expansion, saving thirty feet of land for future growth and selling adjoining land to fund improvements.
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Main Street
Biddeford
Biddeford Savings Bank
Arthur Maxwell
Maxwell
Biddeford Savings
David Shaw
The
Pep
Educational Plantation Proposed by Saco School Board
The Saco School Board discussed a Sears Foundation funded education plantation to aid emotionally disturbed students by buying and developing a farm in Saco as a no cost city project. They also addressed updating the teachers professional negotiations agreement and discussed resignations of Mavis Thompson and William McKay. The board tabled hot lunch program details and personnel regulations, noted 8th Grade Awards Night, and voted to skip July and August meetings with the next session set for September.
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Saco
Mavis Thompson
Jordan School
William McKay
Burns School
Howard L. Cushman
Linnell Gymnasium
Silent spring of Washington social life signals year of boredom
Washington society finds fewer parties dinners and events as Nixon moves in and Johnson departs. The city feels an unusual quiet with guests scarce and caterers hurting, while ambassadors and social leaders offer theories from Vietnam optimism to a paralyzed guest list as the White House tightens invites and decorum.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Pennsylvania Avenue
Everett M. Dirksen
George Hamilton
Gerry van der Heuvel
Liz Carpenter
Marine
Betty Beale
The
Washington Star
Miami Beach
White House
Testimony Begins In Goodwin Murder Trial
In York County Superior Court yesterday two state witnesses testified in the murder trial of Ralph Francis Goodwin 29 charged with the July 16 shooting death of his wife Marilyn Ransen Goodwin in Sanford Maine The day featured jurors touring the Joffre Street scene and the prosecutor detailing a cold blooded act from 3 30 p m to 9 45 p m with Goodwin allegedly firing the weapon after his wife pleaded for life and after insisting he would go feet first if police acted foolishly The defense argued the killing was accidental with no intent noting marital separation and plans for California work The testimony traced the aftermath including a confrontation at a Sanford Maine home and a later claim that Goodwin wanted only five minutes with a man named Bassilio
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Alfred
Ralph Francis Goodwin
York County Superior Court
Goodwin
Marilyn Ransen Goodwin
Joffre Street
Daniel Lilley
Sanford
Portland Weather Bureau
Atty
Armand Gendron
Dover
California
Somersworth
N.H
Maine
Gendron
George Bassilio
Bassilio
Scott Hoar
Wgan-Tv
John Meserve
Foster
Daily Democrat
John Field
Second Little League Planned For Saco
Saco Little League plans a second league to add 90 players this summer. Andrew Scontras says two coaches and six officers per team are needed for six new teams. A meeting will organize officials and progress the farm system for this year and complete official status next season.
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Bill Houston
Saco
Little League
Andrew Scontras
Scontras
Apollo 11 moon landing planned for July 16 launch
Apollo 11 gains approval for a July moon landing with commander Neil Armstrong and crewmates Aldrin and Collins undergoing intensive training. Officials warn readiness hinges on crew performance in simulations and potential last minute shifts in schedule remain possible.
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Aldrin
Donald K. Slayton
Slayton
Armstrong
Charles Berry
Sam C. Phillips
Deay
Alaska Oil Pipeline Plan Advances After Hickel Pledge
Washington AP reports Congress may grant a 800 mile Trans-Alaska pipeline right of way once Senate and House interior committees approve. Interior officials say exceptions may permit the route under Hickel’s land freeze pledge, with construction details including 100 foot wide rights of way and multiple pumping stations.
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Washington
Walter J. Hickle
Alaska
Interior Department
Interior Committees
Senate
House
Harrison Loesch
Public Land Management
Hickel
Hickle
Senate Interior Committee
Henry Jackson
Wash
Jackson
Loesch
Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Congress
Loeschi
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
Atlantic Richfield Co
Humble Oil and Refining Co
B. P. Oil Corp
Prudhoe Bay
Valdez
Trans-Alaska
Bureau of Land Management
South Korean Forces Sink North Korean Spy Boat
South Korea's CIA says a combined army navy and air force trap sank a 75 foot four engine spy boat off Huksan Island after luring the craft to pick up agent Kim Yong ki. Fifteen North Koreans died. two bodies recovered. no South Korean casualties.
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Seoul
South Korea
Central Intelligence Agency
Huksan
Kim Yong-ki
Navy
Dio
Kim
Dennett's Garage Sold in Saco Real Estate Transfer
A large single dwelling and garage at 34 Franklin St Saco sold from Atty Udell Bramson Portland to Norman Morin 54 Adams St Biddeford. The sale was negotiated through the Edgar Morin Rea Estate Agency Biddeford.
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Dennett's
Franklin St
Saco
Atty
Udell Bramson
Portland
Norman Morin
Adams St
Biddeford
Edgar Morin Rea
Adams Street
Nixon urged to start talks on shoe import limits
A petition signed by 301 congressmen led by Rep. James A. Burke calls on President Nixon to pursue voluntary restrictions on U S shoe imports. They cite a 600 percent rise since 1960 and seven New England plants closing in the first half of this congression.
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Washington
Nixon
United States
James A. Burke
Dmass
White House
New England
U.S
Burke
William H. Bates
Rmass
Airlines Strike Stirs Northwest Early This Morning
AP dispatch reports ALPA struck Northwest Airlines in the early hours, with contract talks ongoing. Other briefs note allied troops sweeping Central Vietnam, Nixon naming Gen John D. Ryan to the Joint Chiefs, Alaska oil pipeline moves, Apollo 11 readiness questions, Fulbright seeking details on Vietnam talks, a North Korea raid on a spy boat, and a weak stock market.
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Paul-Minneapolis
the Airlines Pilot Association
ALPA
Northwest Airlines
Washington
Nixon
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Air Force
John D. Ryan
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